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  1. Posts : 93
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       #11

    Bree said:
    Your system image is on the external drive in a folder called WinfdowsImageBackup. Inside this is a folder with the name of the machine you backed up, and inside that is a folder with a name in the form yyy-mm-dd-hhmmss representing the date and time on the image backup (eg. 2019-08-20-123456). This folder contains one or more .vhdx files, one for each partition that was backed up.

    The largest .vhdx will almost certainly be you old C: drive. We will need to open this with read/write permissions so copy this file to another part of your external HDD so we can work on that without altering the original.

    Window 10 can mount a .vhdx file as a virtual drive. In Windows, right-click on your copy of the .vhdx and select Mount. The drive will now be mounted and given a new drive letter. You can explore this drive in File Explorer, just like any other drive, and copy the files you need. You will almost certainly run into permissions problems. You will not have permissions to see the user folder you documents are in. You may have to take ownership of it, then grant yourself full permission. If you are signed in as an administrator you may just have to click 'Continue' when you try to open a folder. Either way, you are modifying the .vhdx which is why you should work with a copy.

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    I followed that but when I right click and select Mount, I get a message ‘The disk image isn’t initialised, contains partitions that aren’t recognizable, or contains volumes that haven’t been assigned drive letters. Please use Disk Management snap-in to make sure that the disk, partitions and volumes are in a usable state.’

    I don’t understand this, it’s something I haven’t encountered before.
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       #12

    janey6 said:
    I followed that but when I right click and select Mount, I get a message ‘The disk image isn’t initialised, contains partitions that aren’t recognizable, or contains volumes that haven’t been assigned drive letters. Please use Disk Management snap-in to make sure that the disk, partitions and volumes are in a usable state.’

    Then open Disk Management. For any partition on the virtual disk without a drive letter, right-click on it and assign a drive letter. Then you should be able to explore it in File Explorer.
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  3. Posts : 93
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       #13

    Restore from WindowsImageBackup-64f9f8fb-b8dc-4aeb-a372-bb850c1bbf65.jpeg
    This is what I see in Disk Management.
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       #14

    janey6 said:
    This is what I see in Disk Management.
    Scroll down a bit, Disk 0 is your internal drive and Disk 1 is your external HDD (Disk 2 may be your DVD, if you have one). You should find the mounted drive below that as the next disk, Disk 2 (or Disk 3 if you have a DVD drive).

    If you don't find Disk 2 has what you need, then you may have chosen the wrong .vhdx to mount. The largest one in your backup set is usually the one for the old C: drive.
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       #15

    You could try the free (unregistered) version of diskgenius. It will tell you if there is somethimg wrong the virtual disk, otherwise, it will open and you can copy stuff out.

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  6. Posts : 93
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       #16

    Bree said:
    Scroll down a bit, Disk 0 is your internal drive and Disk 1 is your external HDD (Disk 2 may be your DVD, if you have one). You should find the mounted drive below that as the next disk, Disk 2 (or Disk 3 if you have a DVD drive).
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    If you don't find Disk 2 has what you need, then you may have chosen the wrong .vhdx to mount. The largest one in your backup set is usually the one for the old C: drive.
    I chose the largest file. These are screenshots of what I see.
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       #17

    janey6 said:
    I chose the largest file. These are screenshots of what I see.
    No you didn't. This is your largest .vhdx at some 220GB.

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  8. Posts : 93
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       #18

    Sorry - been getting a bit confused of late!

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    I have now copied the largest file to my external drive and looked at the Disk Management. I don't see how to mount it. Sorry I must seem very dim but I've got lost!

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  9. Posts : 31,471
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       #19

    janey6 said:
    I have now copied the largest file to my external drive and looked at the Disk Management. I don't see how to mount it...
    I think you will find that it has mounted, but the partition doesn't have a drive letter. Open Disk Management, right-click on the partition without a drive letter and assign it one.
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  10. Posts : 93
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       #20

    Bree said:
    I think you will find that it has mounted, but the partition doesn't have a drive letter. Open Disk Management, right-click on the partition without a drive letter and assign it one.
    I don't see how it has mounted, it still says the same when I try to open it. I don't know where to assign a drive letter. Sorry!Restore from WindowsImageBackup-dm2.jpg
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